Baraya-la

The full title “Budjari Gunyalungalung Baraya-La” means “Let’s sing good dreaming”. Jacinta Tobin and Nardi Simpson collaborated to compose the song to reawaken the local Sydney language in a performance for country, ancestors and healing.

Choirs and community gathered together to learn this newly commissioned song, which was first performed at the WugulOra Ceremony at Barangaroo on the 26 January 2017. It was commissioned by the 2017 Festival of Sydney and repeated in 2018.